0:00:00 > 0:00:00That's it.
0:00:14 > 0:00:18Good evening - I'm Claudia-Liza Armah.
0:00:18 > 0:00:22Less than 24 hours after we revealed the huge bill facing London councils
0:00:22 > 0:00:26to improve fire safety for tenants - today the Chancellor announced
0:00:26 > 0:00:28£28 million for the authority hit by the Grenfell tragedy.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31He also promised money for others to carry out
0:00:31 > 0:00:32essential safety work.
0:00:32 > 0:00:36But some Councils have told us tonight - they don't believe
0:00:36 > 0:00:38the Government as they've been turned down for help before.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40Our political correspondent Karl Mercer reports.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42They're fitting sprinklers in all their flats in Croydon.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46That's 534.
0:00:46 > 0:00:48And they're starting to put new fire doors in some
0:00:48 > 0:00:50of the estates in Tower Hamlets.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52Since the Grenfell Fire, London's councils have started
0:00:52 > 0:00:54spending more on safety in their tower blocks,
0:00:54 > 0:00:56hoping the Government would fund some of the work.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58Today, the council most affected by the Fire,
0:00:58 > 0:01:05was told it would get more money.
0:01:05 > 0:01:07Today I can announce we will provide Kensington and Chelsea
0:01:07 > 0:01:10council with a further £28 million for mental health counselling
0:01:10 > 0:01:13services, regeneration support for the surrounding areas
0:01:13 > 0:01:21and to provide a new community space for local residents.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23I spent weeks speaking to ministers and I'm absolutely
0:01:23 > 0:01:31delighted that they've agreed to give us £28 million today.
0:01:31 > 0:01:37Yeah, it will help people to come up together
0:01:37 > 0:01:39and, you know, to meet each other and deal with the problem
0:01:39 > 0:01:41that is around, and stay together.
0:01:41 > 0:01:4428 million they should have spent, what they should have
0:01:44 > 0:01:46done, not 28 million, they should have spent money for the
0:01:46 > 0:01:47sprinklers.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50Today, the Chancellor did promise help for councils if they couldn't
0:01:50 > 0:01:51afford essential fire safety work.
0:01:51 > 0:01:56If any local authority cannot access funding to pay for
0:01:56 > 0:01:59essential fire safety work they should contact us immediately.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01The London Fire Brigade says it thinks things
0:02:01 > 0:02:02like sprinklers are essential.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05I support retrofitting, clearly.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08You know, for me, where you can save one
0:02:08 > 0:02:12life then it's worth doing.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14This can't be optional.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17But as BBC London revealed yesterday, 15 councils
0:02:17 > 0:02:24in the capital have asked for money to the tune of nearly £400 million.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26None have so far received any.
0:02:26 > 0:02:27So what do those in Croydon
0:02:27 > 0:02:29and Tower Hamlets make of the Chancellor's words today?
0:02:29 > 0:02:31Well, unfortunately, Philip Hammond's not saying anything
0:02:31 > 0:02:35new today than what his government's previously said and we've already
0:02:35 > 0:02:38approached the government on a number of occasions, asked for the
0:02:38 > 0:02:40money that we desperately need here in Croydon to fit sprinklers
0:02:40 > 0:02:41and been turned down.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43It's promises of jam tomorrow.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45We have over 130 blocks over seven floors high.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47If we wanted to put sprinklers in them,
0:02:47 > 0:02:49for example, we would need many millions of pounds from the
0:02:49 > 0:02:54Government and there's no sign whatsoever of that.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57The Government says it will not allow what it called financial
0:02:57 > 0:03:00constraints to get in the way of any essential fire safety works.
0:03:00 > 0:03:01Karl Mercer, BBC London News.
0:03:01 > 0:03:07Let's get more from our political editor Tim Donovan.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10You have been speaking to ministers, what has been the government's
0:03:10 > 0:03:16reaction to this?If any councils got the impression that the
0:03:16 > 0:03:19Chancellor was indicating there was going to be more money available to
0:03:19 > 0:03:24refurbish, help retrofit tower blocks, that is not the case. The
0:03:24 > 0:03:28Government's position has clearly not changed, look very carefully,
0:03:28 > 0:03:31the expectation is councils will have to look to their own budgets to
0:03:31 > 0:03:36put in this remedial safety work and it will only be in the most
0:03:36 > 0:03:39exceptional circumstances the government will step in.
0:03:39 > 0:03:45Where any council has approached us, including London councils, and said
0:03:45 > 0:03:46they can't afford it themselves, we've said,
0:03:46 > 0:03:48well, talk to us about what
0:03:48 > 0:03:50flexibilities you need, the kind of support that we can
0:03:50 > 0:03:52provide to make sure the funding is there.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54And that's vital, because we will make sure
0:03:54 > 0:03:57there won't be a single local authority in the country that is
0:03:57 > 0:04:00unable to do its work because we will support it in making
0:04:00 > 0:04:04sure that those fire safety measures are all met in full.
0:04:04 > 0:04:09There were quite a few key announcements today's budget. In
0:04:09 > 0:04:16your opinion Howard did they fare on that?There wasn't much more money
0:04:16 > 0:04:21available today for affordable housing in week knew already, £2
0:04:21 > 0:04:25billion announced at Tory party conference, London will get a
0:04:25 > 0:04:29significant share of that. Councils Scott Moore borrowing powers, they
0:04:29 > 0:04:33will be able to build more affordable homes, they say not
0:04:33 > 0:04:36enough. There was no mention of policing, so nothing for the mayor,
0:04:36 > 0:04:40who says he will not be able to keep police numbers at 32,000, and he
0:04:40 > 0:04:46wanted to see a scheme in terms of air quality to compensate drivers,
0:04:46 > 0:04:49persuade them to get rid of their diesel vehicles. The Chancellor
0:04:49 > 0:04:54didn't come up with that but he came up with a national fund, £220
0:04:54 > 0:04:57million, London will have to bid for that money. The mayor wasn't that
0:04:57 > 0:04:59impressed.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02I think this is probably the most anti-London budget in a generation.
0:05:02 > 0:05:03Housing opportunity missed.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05Police not even mentioned by the government.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07Air quality getting worse across the country, getting
0:05:07 > 0:05:09worse in London without the government's help.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Infrastructure, we're doing what we can in London
0:05:11 > 0:05:19but we need the government's help as well.
0:05:19 > 0:05:23Infrastructure, not really much of a mention, no green light for
0:05:23 > 0:05:26Crossrail command listen to the Chancellor, his talk of
0:05:26 > 0:05:29infrastructure today was about putting stuff into the West Midlands
0:05:29 > 0:05:35and Tyne & Wear, this new generation of Metro mayors, the talk of
0:05:35 > 0:05:39infrastructure today wasn't London with its
0:05:39 > 0:05:42Labour mayor.Thank you, Tim.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45The police watchdog is investigating after a 15-year-old boy was injured
0:05:45 > 0:05:46while being stopped by Met officers.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49Scotland Yard say they spotted the boy after a woman said
0:05:49 > 0:05:50she'd been robbed nearby.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53But the teenager's mother has told BBC London her son was not involved
0:05:53 > 0:05:56in any theft and claims he was the victim of both mistaken
0:05:56 > 0:05:58identity and excessive force.
0:05:58 > 0:06:04Well our Home Affairs correspondent Nick Beake is here now -
0:06:04 > 0:06:08What can you tell us about the circumstances around this
0:06:08 > 0:06:1215-year-old being stopped?It happened around 9pm last night in
0:06:12 > 0:06:14Bermondsey and the Met police confirmed they had stopped the
0:06:14 > 0:06:18teenager cycling after a woman said she had been stopped, robbed of her
0:06:18 > 0:06:23phone by a boy on the bike. The police watchdog the IPCC said a
0:06:23 > 0:06:2715-year-old boy came off his bike, to use their phrase, and suffered
0:06:27 > 0:06:30facial injuries and was taken to hospital. Today the mother of the
0:06:30 > 0:06:37boy posted a photograph online, and she says it shows he's got a broken
0:06:37 > 0:06:41tooth and needed stitches after his lip was split open. She told us to
0:06:41 > 0:06:45not he wasn't involved in any robbery, he was merely cycling home
0:06:45 > 0:06:49to involve them avoid a curfew she had set for him. This is what she
0:06:49 > 0:06:50told us.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53As he's pedalling fast, obviously maybe to the police it
0:06:53 > 0:06:54looks like he's running away from something.
0:06:54 > 0:06:55I don't know.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58You know, he's told me the police have basically come out of
0:06:58 > 0:07:00nowhere, a police car behind him and a police
0:07:00 > 0:07:02car in front of him, and as
0:07:02 > 0:07:05he's got to basically, I think it's Morley's chicken shop,
0:07:05 > 0:07:09the police guy has jumped out of the car,
0:07:09 > 0:07:12shoved him into the shop shutters, and basically the rest is history.
0:07:12 > 0:07:22His face was just completely smashed up.
0:07:24 > 0:07:28We put the allegations to Scotland Yard tonight. They say they are
0:07:28 > 0:07:32unable to comment because the IPCC is now investigating. Clearly the
0:07:32 > 0:07:35police watchdog want to look into this as soon as possible. One thing
0:07:35 > 0:07:40that might help them is the fact that across London more than 20,000
0:07:40 > 0:07:44front line police officers now where body warned video cameras and
0:07:44 > 0:07:47clearly any footage in a contentious incident like this would be
0:07:47 > 0:07:51extremely helpful in an investigation.We will await details
0:07:51 > 0:07:53on that but for now, thank you.
0:07:53 > 0:07:58Transport for London is trying to find out if drivers and customers
0:07:58 > 0:08:01here have been impacted by a huge data breach on Uber -
0:08:01 > 0:08:08affecting millions.
0:08:08 > 0:08:09The minicab-hailing firm
0:08:09 > 0:08:10is currently appealing a decision to suspend
0:08:10 > 0:08:12its licence in the capital.
0:08:12 > 0:08:13Our Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones reports.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16For any company, a data breach exposing the personal information
0:08:16 > 0:08:1857 million users and drivers would be bad enough.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20It was what Uber did next that really shocked
0:08:20 > 0:08:22regulators and customers - paying off the hackers and keeping
0:08:22 > 0:08:24it all quiet for more than a year.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27It happened when Uber was run by its founder, Travis Kalanick,
0:08:27 > 0:08:29who stepped down earlier this year amid other controversies
0:08:29 > 0:08:30about the company's behaviour.
0:08:30 > 0:08:34The new boss Dara Khosrowshahi apologised in a blog post, saying:
0:08:47 > 0:08:49Customers are clearly
0:08:49 > 0:08:52very concerned that their data is not being protected sufficiently.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55But there's only so much you can do as a consumer.
0:08:55 > 0:08:59We need to hold the companies accountable.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01We know that this very serious security failure affected
0:09:01 > 0:09:04people around the world.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07What we don't know is how many British Uber users saw their data
0:09:07 > 0:09:09put at risk by this breach.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11Already, our data protection regulator, the Information
0:09:11 > 0:09:13Commissioner, has issued an angry statement warning that
0:09:13 > 0:09:18concealing a data breach can lead to bigger fines.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21Now this troubled company has to try to regain the trust
0:09:21 > 0:09:23of regulators and customers.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26You start with a mea culpa - OK, our culture doesn't work -
0:09:26 > 0:09:28and a genuine and sincere effort to reset.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Can they do it?
0:09:30 > 0:09:33Highly unlikely, actually, if I'm honest.
0:09:33 > 0:09:37But it is possible.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40In London, as in many cities, Uber has always been controversial
0:09:40 > 0:09:43and is currently fighting a ban.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46This new evidence of behaviour its own boss admits was inexcusable
0:09:46 > 0:09:49won't make that battle any easier.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58That's it for now from me, but let's find out what the weather's up
0:09:58 > 0:10:01to with Susan Powell.
0:10:01 > 0:10:02to with Susan Powell.
0:10:02 > 0:10:06Good evening. It's going to be turning much colder in the next few
0:10:06 > 0:10:10days and most of tomorrow when it should be relatively mild, they will
0:10:10 > 0:10:16be lots of sunshine. Another windy day, perhaps not as warm as today.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19Outside at the moment some rain is moving in from the west, nothing too
0:10:19 > 0:10:23much at the moment but give it a couple of hours or so and we will
0:10:23 > 0:10:25see heavier downpours and into the small hours of Thursday we could
0:10:25 > 0:10:29hear the odd rumble of thunder. But it looks like the rain will whisk
0:10:29 > 0:10:35eastwards quickly leaving us with relatively dry start to Thursday and
0:10:35 > 0:10:38mild in towns and cities, temperatures in double figures. A
0:10:38 > 0:10:42few more showers chasing across during the rush hour but lots of
0:10:42 > 0:10:45sunshine through much of the day, a few showers late in the afternoon,
0:10:45 > 0:10:49but overall a lot of better weather to come and stilts and decent
0:10:49 > 0:10:54temperatures, highs of 13 or 14 degrees. -- stilts and decent
0:10:54 > 0:10:57temperatures. Now over to Darren Bett for the outlook over the coming
0:10:57 > 0:11:04days.